We take a look at the record-breaking Octo Finissimo Ultra from Bulgari—and there’s no prizes for guessing which record it has broken, thanks to our apt title. With a 1.8mm thick case, this ...

The winner of the 2021 GPHG, the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar, demonstrated a combination of highly specialist watchmaking mastery, chief of which was its exceptional thinness a...

For the second in our Audemars Piguet section of our In Focus series, we aren’t going to mention the Royal Oak even once … starting from now. We’ve got three more incredible facts about watc...

What do the ice cream companies Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s have in common? Don’t worry, I’m not about to make some lame joke; the answer is that they are owned by the same company: Uni...

No one in the watch industry can boast a legacy like that of the great Gerald Genta, who died ten years ago this week. Genta didn’t merely design one iconic watch for one brand. Across a de...

It’s not often that a watch is stumbled upon that makes you do a bulgy-eyed double take and say, “How much?!”—at least, certainly not at the bargainous end of the scale. This, the Bulgari Oc...

Patek Philippe is through the roof, Vacheron Constantin is following. Collectors are hoovering up anything and everything that has any attachment to high quality, classical watchmaking. Even...

What do you get when you cross Italian flamboyance with the world’s most vivacious watch designer? The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Skeleton Power Reserve, of course, and it is quite possibly the ...

They say that something valuable is worth its weight in gold, and in watchmaking there’s a lot to be said about having some heft. So, given that—and despite having a fully integrated bracele...

Most people looking for a luxury watch want either a Rolex, Omega or TAG Heuer. That’s quite simply the fact of it, for Rolex especially. And it’s easy to see why—they produce great watches,...

If you’ve got a lump sum of around £5,000 burning a hole in your pocket, and you’re looking to get yourself your first watch, you’re probably thinking about some kind of Rolex, or Omega, or ...

For someone looking for a sporty watch in steel, chances are they will probably pick up a Rolex Submariner, perhaps a Panerai Luminor if they’ve got a hankering for something a bit more exot...